Follow us on LinkedIn! Click here. Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below: Written By: Jay Tipton As the world seeks to combat climate change, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has gained significant attention. Achieving net-zero pathways by 2050 could require removing six to ten gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, making…
Follow us on LinkedIn! Click here. Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below: Written By: Julie Witherspoon As the climate crisis intensifies, the shortage of climate finance becomes more pressing. Innovative financial tools, particularly philanthropic capital and impact investing are crucial for driving positive change. These instruments can catalyze environmental action,…
Welcome to the April Virtus newsletter! As spring brings a sense of renewal, April reminded us that progress in climate finance is anything but seasonal – it’s a constant push, full of complexity, innovation, and contradictions. In Our Take, we unpack the urgent need for climate adaptation finance in developing nations and explores how international…
Last week, while on a train from Madrid to Guadalajara for a quick day trip, I tuned into one of my favorite climate podcasts – Zero: The Climate Race, produced by Bloomberg. The episode, titled These ‘Beautiful’ Banks are Expected to Save Climate Finance, featured a compelling conversation between host Akshat Rathi and Avinash Persaud, the special advisor on climate risks to the president of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Listen to this episode on any of the streaming platforms below. “We’re scaling at the speed of trust.”— Kelly Cain In the fourth episode of season 3 of Untangling Climate Finance, Jay connected with Kelly Cain, the Senior Program & Policy Strategist and longtime collaborator with the National Indian Carbon Coalition, to explore how Indigenous…
